LAMPIZATOR Amber 5 - Digital to Analog Converter - NEW!

PLEASE CHECK AVAILABILITY BEFORE CONFIRMING YOUR PURCHASE! Our stock can change any minute – we sell through various sales channels.Brand New! – Closed Box.We are authorised dealers of the finest audio gear and musical instruments.Note 1: Free shipping within EU. If outside EU, please message us for specific shipping price to your particular location. The price you see is only a generic estimation for “outside EU”.Note 2: This product is custom ordered, please check availability and/or eventual shipping delay.Note 3: Price shown is for Single Ended RCA, no preamp/volume version. Prices for other versions in the description of the ad. Message us to confirm which one you need.Note 4: We sell without taxes anywhere outside Europe and to valid VAT ID companies inside Europe. Please ask us your price without Tax in those cases.Note 5: We can quote any kind of bundle with our products at the most convenient prices. Just ask for it.LAMPIZATOR AMBER 5 - DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTERAmber 5 is by far our best entry level DAC ever, with 15 years of experience optimizing the old Level 4 to become Amber 1, 2 and eventually 3 and 4. It starts shipping in April 01 2024 as a successor to Amber 4. NOTE: Amber 5 has Engine 11 and not 12. Following our huge efforts to create the Baltic-3 and the Horizon DAC we gained enough knowhow and confidence to redesign the Amber DAC from ground up, and offer an entirely new product. Circa around November 25th 2021 we start testing Amber-4, while technical necessities caused us to phase out Amber-3 entirely in February 2022. A huge success of the new Engine11 DAC board - made us re-think the future of Amber programme and eventually in March 2024 we decided to offer the Engine11 also to the Amber product line. Making it the cheapest DAC to use this remarkably superior digital engine. The change of name from Amber 4 to 5 is nothing more but the reflection of the engine upgrade.We left untouched the analog section which we feel is optimal for the job. It took a total redesign of the digital section. It retains surprisingly a lot of the Baltic good qualities - pure, natural, effortless, spacious and super dynamic presentation worthy of at least twice as expensive product. This DAC, thanks to having output buffer - can drive particularly well the transistor amps.We are very proud of this DAC, and the fact that at an entry level price we can outperform any competitor known to us. This DAC gives joy and bliss in spades.Some other highlights are: copper output caps, CLC power filter with tube rectifier 6X5, true balanced option, volume control option, full analog preamp of very high quality, USB circuit JLS of the highest caliber, newly designed muting to avoid pops and clicks in computer operation, and many many more. This DAC will play DSD512.Amber 5 introductionThe most popular line of Lampizator DACS just gotten better! Completely redesigned digital engine 11High End analog section with improved tube output loosely based on Baltic3New power transformer and linear power suppliesTrue Copper output capacitorsNew “JLS usb card” as standard now​More musical than ever, Free of any artifacts, very direct, liquid and fast sound with improved transparency and detail.In design of the new digital engine we managed to squeeze the last drop of musicality from PCM and DSD files also DSD being no longer limited to 256X but fully natively 512 - which almost nobody uses anyway - but making this change was was well worth it.MAIN SPECS:​4 main variants:​Single Ended RCA , no preamp/volume (price shown in this ad)Single Ended RCA , WITH preamp/volume - available for extra € 1.500 (+ 21% Vat, if applicable)*Fully Balanced & Single Ended RCA , no preamp/volume - available for extra € 500 (+ 21% Vat, if applicable)*Fully Balanced & Single Ended RCA , WITH preamp/volume - available for extra € 2.000 (+ 21% Vat, if applicable)** please message us if you need any of these versions.New OLED display, no more LCD (taken from the Pacific project)Software driven signal routing, no more relaysTotal muting to keep switching noises downPlays every digital file knownno drivers needed for any computer operating systemVolume control models have one analog input for analog sources (active input with tubes and volume)